Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum

Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: mark smyth on June 28, 2010, 12:15:39 AM

Title: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
Post by: mark smyth on June 28, 2010, 12:15:39 AM

This small plant would look great in a trough but what is it? It was growing close to the sea in short grass.

Title: Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 28, 2010, 01:03:14 AM

Is it the little pink thing that's related to Gentiana? I can't remember the name. Something beginning with C? Something scilloides??? Saw it on Lindisfarne years ago and it turns up in my garden occasionally.

Title: Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
Post by: TheOnionMan on June 28, 2010, 02:46:26 AM

Looks like a Centaurium species to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurium

Title: Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
Post by: zephirine on June 28, 2010, 04:20:10 AM

I agree: it is Centaurium erythraea, I think: a lovely native in the meadows, here.

Title: Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 28, 2010, 04:26:32 AM

Yeah, that's the one I mean. Probably erythraea, rather than scilloides. :) Or are they synonyms?

Title: Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
Post by: zephirine on June 28, 2010, 08:40:50 AM

I don't think they are synonyms, Lesley.. Erythraea is the only one I personnally met, so I wouldn't be 100% sure. Maybe the foliage is different, or the size? The flowers look pretty much similar...
Zeph

Title: Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
Post by: Maggi Young on June 28, 2010, 09:31:40 AM

I'd go with C. scilloides because of the size.........I thought C. erythraea was always  taller  ???

Title: Re: Lovely pink flowered plant to ID
Post by: mark smyth on June 28, 2010, 10:23:35 AM

Thanks everyone. It's actually in my book but only shows C. erythraea.